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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 3: The Dark Side of Bootstrapping

Strategy Driven

After almost three years of losing money, things started to become stressful. If we had planned properly, we would have raised enough financing to see us through the gestation period of a national publication. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Our business model was not working as planned.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business Review

To test the idea, hospital managers developed a special patient-safety card game that encouraged coworkers to work together more easily and reinforced their knowledge of core safety and patient care principles. And we mean everyone — not only the inpatient and outpatient teams but even people in HR and Finance. Insight Center.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

It aims to highlight the true nature of risk, and how simple mistakes and everyday pressures, from family concerns to stress over schedules, can conspire to play a critical role in things going wrong. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload.